Manifest Electronic Voting Machine Using Image Processing

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Manifest Electronic Voting Machine Using Image Processing

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ABSTRACT

Electing an Eligible leader is a highest and prestigious responsibilities of every citizen of the country. Conducting the election and announcing the election results is a time and resource consuming task. Introduction of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) greatly reduced the burden of operation but raises many concerns about the authentication of the results. Failure political parties often blame the functioning of the EVM is compromised with hacking techniques and intentional malpractice. This project work endeavors to solve the continuous accusations over EVM through following multi verification methods. Wireless voting copy machine and surveillance camera based voting counting. When a voter cast his/her vote a local copy of the data will be stored inside the EVM. Along with this verification a surveillance camera will recognize the casting vote with motion estimation. After the election, during data counting all the above two types of results will be compared to get a unique and authenticated result, which cannot be accused for malpractice. Keywords: EVM; Verification; Voting; Authentication; Motion Estimation; Surveillance camera I. INTRODUCTION

Voting is a basic right of every citizen in a democratic country. Free and fair election are very basic for endurance of democracy. Exercising of right to vote and for assuring that the vote which is cast is accounted in favor of the candidate and party which one likes is the very essence of democracy. First, the ballot paper were used for the election and the votes were casted manually. Now, the ballot paper based voting is replaced by electronic voting machine as the

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Electing an Eligible leader is a highest and prestigious of every citizen of the country.

Conducting the election and announcing the election results is a time and resource consuming task. Introduction of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) greatly reduced the burden of operation but raises

authentication of the results. Failure political parties often blame the functioning of the EVM is compromised with hacking techniques and intentional malpractice. This project work endeavors to solve the continuous accusations over

multi verification methods. Wireless voting copy machine and surveillance camera based voting counting. When a voter cast his/her vote a local copy of the data will be stored inside the EVM. Along with this verification a

the casting vote with motion estimation. After the election, during data counting all the above two types of results will be compared to get a unique and authenticated result, which cannot be accused for malpractice.

EVM; Verification; Voting; Malpractice; Authentication; Motion Estimation; Surveillance

Voting is a basic right of every citizen in a democratic country. Free and fair election are very basic for endurance of democracy. Exercising of right to vote

uring that the vote which is cast is accounted in favor of the candidate and party which one likes is the very essence of democracy. First, the ballot paper were used for the election and the votes

the ballot paper based s replaced by electronic voting machine as the

technology has improved a lot.result. On the other hand, many people’s think that the electronic voting machines are hackable. They believe that the technology can be hacked and manipulated in support or beside a candidate/political party. If this be true, then the election process would end up being a shambles and democracy would be at risk. Most of the countries like Europe have shifted from normal pballot system to E.V.M with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial System[V.V.P.A.T]. The system of the V.V.P.A.T is that one casts one’s vote electronically but a receipt is printed by the machine attached to the system, where one’s vote has beenthe normal E.V.M that are used at present one just presses the button as per the choice of symbol allotted to candidate, but the voter never knows as to where the vote has been cast and whether it is as per the choice of voter. In this, the proposurveillance camera is used to store the local copy of the vote with the vote timing. At last, the local copy stored inside the EVM and the data stored through surveillance camera are compared to get a authenticated result, which cannot be amalpractice. II. PROPOSED SYSTEM Electronic voting machine has a ballot and control unit. All the voting results will in offline chip.. A ballot based cross check mechanism is used to recount the voting in Old manual counting method. This proposed system is camera based vote counting mechanism. A Non-hackable Multi vote count mechanism is introduced with camera based non contact vote counting. Voting timing details will be

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technology has improved a lot. It also gives quick many people’s think that the

electronic voting machines are hackable. They believe technology can be hacked and manipulated in

support or beside a candidate/political party. If this be true, then the election process would end up being a shambles and democracy would be at risk. Most of the countries like Europe have shifted from normal paper ballot system to E.V.M with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial System[V.V.P.A.T]. The system of the V.V.P.A.T is that one casts one’s vote electronically but a receipt is printed by the machine attached to the system, where one’s vote has been cast, whereas in the normal E.V.M that are used at present one just presses the button as per the choice of symbol allotted to candidate, but the voter never knows as to where the vote has been cast and whether it is as per the choice of voter. In this, the proposed system the surveillance camera is used to store the local copy of the vote with the vote timing. At last, the local copy stored inside the EVM and the data stored through surveillance camera are compared to get a authenticated result, which cannot be accused for

PROPOSED SYSTEM

Electronic voting machine has a ballot and control unit. All the voting results will in offline chip.. A ballot based cross check mechanism is used to recount the voting in Old manual counting method.

posed system is camera based vote counting hackable Multi vote count

mechanism is introduced with camera based non contact vote counting. Voting timing details will be

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available in camera and controller log which leads to accurate voting information. As this proposed system has complete verification, there need not be any worry to candidate as it checks for the authentication. Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial System[.V.P.A.T.S] is also don’t need when the authenticated result only will publish.

III. HARDWARE

1. CAMERA The name camera comes from camera obscure which means ―dark chamber‖. A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location or both. It is used to senses objects without any contact with it. The functioning of the camera is related to the functioning of human eye. This camera is used to capture the image of electronic voting machine and stores the voting data with timing.

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2. ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE:

Electronic Voting Machine used since 1999 and recently in 2018 state elections. This device is used to register or store votes. It consists of ballot unit and control unit. The ballot unit contains both blue buttons and corresponding party symbol and the control unit consists of battery section, display section, result section and ballot section.

Figure 2 BALLOT UNIT

Figure 3 CONTROL UNIT

3. ARDUINO KIT [UNO]:

Arduino kit is an open-source electronics board and the software used to program it. This board contains sets of digital and analog input/output pins and it consists of microprocessors and microcontrollers.

Figure 4

4. INFRARED LED’s:

Infrared light emitting diode emitting range is between 700 nm to 1 mm wavelength. This led is madeup of aluminium gallium arsenide. A camera or cellphone camera is used to see this emission since human eye cannot see high emitting range.



Figure 5

IV. SOFTWARE:

1. MAT LAB:

MATRIX LABORATORY is used here for the color filtering process. It is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data. It has five important parts namely the MATLAB language, the MATLAB working environment, Handle graphics, mathematical function library, application programming interface.

Figure 6

2. PYTHON:

Python is an interpreted, object oriented programming language similar to PERL. python is easy to learn and portable. Because the statements can be interpreted in many os like MAC os,MS DOS.

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V. RESULTS:

MODULE NAME: COLOR FILTERING

An image contains RED, GREEN, and BLUE bands. Imread() is used to read the image. Imshow() is used to show the array values of the image. Color value can be predicted based on the dominant pixel he range in each image band. imread(filename), function reads color image from the file specified by the string filename. If the file is not present in the current directory, type the full path of the file on your system.

Figure 8

Figure 8 shows the image before color filtering. The green color is filtered by using threshold value.

Example: To produce a pure Red color pixel at(1,1) position,

Rband(1,1)=255,Gband(1,1)=0,Bband(1,1)=0.

The threshold value is used here to extract only the green light.

Figure 9

Figure 9 shows the binary image that is converted from RGB image[figure 5].Binary images is also called as bi-level or two-level.it is a digital image has only two possible values for each pixel which is either o or 1.A binary image can be stored in memory as a bitmap , a packed array of bits.

The below code is used here to convert the RGB image into binary image.

For(i=1:row) For(j=1:col)

If(rimg(i,j)<23&&gimg(I,j)>=211&& bimg(I,j)<=33) Oimg(i,j)=1;

Else Oimg(i,j)=0;

End End

End



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Figure 10 shows the green light extracted from the figure 8 by color filtering using the below code in mat lab. [r,c]=find(oimg==1) Minrow=min(r); Mincol=min(c); Maxrow=max(r); Maxcol=max(c); Eximg=img(minrow:maxrow,mincol:maxcol); Figure,imshow(eximg); MODULE 2: BUTTON MATRIX

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Figure 11, represents a model voting machine with four buttons and corresponding led’s. This model is connected with the arduino kit to read the voting information.

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Figure 12 & 13 represents the python code to store the voting information using arduino kit. This code is fully write by using python. If button 1 is pressed the vote will be stored to party1 and likewise button 2 for party 2 , button 3 for party 3 and so on.

Figure 14

Figure 14 represents the output got when run the above python code.



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Figure 15 shows the voting counts stored in a file .we can store it in a database also. Finally, This local copy of the voted data will be compared with the data stored through surveillance camera. VI. CONCLUSION: By using this manifest voting machine we can check whether the EVM is secured or not to voting. This proposed system can compare the local copy of the data with the external copy of the data stored using image processing. The minimum amount to buy surveillance camera is 500. Hence, it is very economical to implement in election of India. VII. FUTURE WORK: This voting data can be stored in cloud for future work. and also can be encrypted by using encryption techniques. VIII. REFERENCE: 1) Vote-switching software provided by vendors—A

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Manifest Electronic Voting Machine Using Image Processing